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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is that the general track prepares students to enter UMD-CP underprepared for most technical or preprofessional majors.  The availability of higher level tracks, in line with a student being well-prepared for UMD-CP engineering and CS tracks, is eroding.  The few advanced tracks / magnet programs that remain are no longer awarded to the best prepared students, but instead preferentially to the students coming from historically under-represented groups or at least living in more diverse zip codes.

As a result, UMC and educated immigrant parents feel that the schools are no longer meeting THEIR needs.  In fact, meeting the needs of UMC families or well-educated immigrant families within the public school system is continuously presented at BOE / redistricting meetings as unimportant, and perhaps even un-american or inconsistent with the overall goals of MCPS.  There is a not-so-subtle message these families can either move or choose private schools because the goal of MCPS does not extend beyond meeting the state testing requirements.

In the meantime, no such message emanates either from HoCo or FCPS, where tracking well-prepared students starting in elementary school remains the norm.[/quote]

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